everything I bought to make our backyard wedding special.

When I originally started planning the details of my wedding day late last year, I'd made a checklist of things I wanted to purchase — from dried lavender for guests to throw after the ceremony to the drink signs. I had a vision and a plan to slowly acquire my favorite items on the list, those things that I felt would make the day more special. Then, when we made the choice to postpone our big wedding due to the pandemic but still have a backyard ceremony on our original date, I knew that the small details would mean even more for such an intimate party.

We held a small ceremony in my parents' backyard on October 24 with 17 people — parents, siblings, grandparents, and our maid of honor, best man, officiant, and flower girl — and the day was absolute bliss. When I woke up that morning I couldn't even wrap my head around the day finally having arrived, but a month later, I can truly look back and say it was perfect. And, thanks to our photographer, we have SO many photos to look back on that include all of the details that came together to create our *vibe* for the day.

Outfit, Style, and Getting Ready Details

It would be remiss of me not to first mention this gorgeous custom embroidered leather jacket made by my friends Heather and Allison of Dearly Threaded.  The design on the back is made up of a moon, flowers from my actual bouquet, and "'til death" in a font I bought for this blog and never ended up using (we love to repurpose!). It says "Mrs. Lags" on the front lapel to pay homage to my new last name (really its nickname, as the full thing is Lagattuta), and our first initials are in a lil' heart on the left sleeve. While it's not a detail of the actual wedding per se, it made for the most amazing photos, kept me warm as the day's heat dwindled, and is now a keepsake I plan to wear often. Highly recommend!

My Wedding Dress

Matt's Shoes / Matt's Bow Tie / Matt's Cologne

'Til Death Pennant Flag / Cheetah Print Shoes / Vow Booklets

The tiny Moleskin notebooks were originally blank, so I used my Cricut Maker to cut "her vows" and "his vows" in gold vinyl and adhered them to the fronts of the books.

I bought so many pins from a sweet Etsy shop, Everyday Olive. 

Pictured: Mrs. Pin / XO Pin

Not pictured (given as gifts on the day): Maid of Honor Pin / Flower Girl Pin / Photographer Pin

Crawler Earrings / "M" and Dotted Bracelets (top and bottom in pink box) / Necklace (middle in pink box)

Getting Ready Ring Finger T-Shirt

Pictured: "To My Handsome Groom" Card

Not pictured: "To My Beautiful Bride" Card

My parents' dog Lucas's bow tie was handmade by my friend Steph of Leia Makes Magic.

Ceremony Details

Welcome Letterboard Sign / Easel

Each chair had a handmade ceremony program on it — on one side I had the day's schedule, a little backstory on our wedding date, and a thank you to our guests. The other side (pictured in one of the photos above) had a digital illustration I made from one of our engagement photos, as well as details about our mini wedding party (we kept it small for this year's gathering, but our wedding party actually has 19 people in it, which is more than our entire mini wedding guestlist!). I waffled over having ceremony programs at all because it didn't seem fully necessary, but it ended up being a nice touch and keepsake, plus an excuse to repurpose my illustration.

Each program was held down by a magnetic coaster that I applied guest names to in gold vinyl (as I did with our vow booklets) to act as seating assignments so that we made sure families could be separated for safety.

We borrowed our ceremony arch from friends who made this gorgeous hexagonal cedar arch for their own wedding (thanks, H + I!). There are tons of building plans for arches similar to this on Etsy, like this one.

Cake Table Details

"The Lagattutas" Wall Sign (gifted by my MOH!) / Guestbook Letterboard Sign / Instax Mini Polaroid Camera

Card Box / Pink Sea Glass Bottom Filling

Surprise, surprise: I used my Cricut to add our names in gold vinyl to the lid of the box!

Gold Photo Grid (for our guestbook) / Tassel Tags / Gold Clothespins

Instax Mini Film

Wedding Hashtag Letterboard Sign / Small Clear Stand

Umbra Prisma Photo Frames (in 8x10, 5x7, and 4x6 sizes with engagement photos taken by our photographer!)

To make the hand sanitizer bottles more fun, I took off the labels and wrote "Wash your hands, ya filthy animal" in gold paint pen.

Cake Topper / Cake Stand (also pictured above for a better look)

Cake Servers / Cake Plates (pictured under stand) / Plastic Gold-Rimmed Stemless Champagne Flutes / Stemless Glass Champagne Flutes

I used my Cricut to add Mr and Mrs in black vinyl (though it's all very poorly spaced!).

Cake Forks

And that's about it! Everything was gold, white, and pink, which is my main aesthetic literally all the time, so I was extremely happy with how it all turned out. Slide into my DMs if you want to ask me anything else about the day!

xo,

The New Mrs. Lagattuta (!)